"Hmm? Didnât you see my name in the Level Rankings?" Ryder asked in confusion. He was sure that there must be a roar outside about him leveling so fast. Thereâs no way Shu wouldnât have seen his novel.
"Hmm? Did you not know about the new update in the world of Divinity?" Shu asked Ryder in confusion.
"New update? What do you mean? Did they already introduce the conversion of real money into game money?" Ryder inquired.
"No, Iâm talking about the update changing the ranking structure?" Shu asked Ryder.
"What change?" Ryder asked, still not understanding. He wondered what was happening in divinity that he wasnât aware of.
" For some reason, they changed the entire Ranking structure. When you see the level ranking, you only see the tank of players, not their levels. We can only see that youâre rank one, but we canât see your level. Itâs the same for treasure and fame ones ranking too. You canât see the number of Treasures one possesses in the rankings. All you see are the ranks," Shu told Ryder.
"Hmm? Thatâs weird," Ryder muttered as he frowned.
âThere was nothing like that last time. I canât see any changes this time except the fact that Iâm at the top in ranking in this timeline and the power gap is almost impossible for others to catch up. Is that why the future changed? Did they do it to calm down the cheating allegations from my unbelievable looking level? It seems that way,â
â They donât want anyone to see my level that easily, but they didnât just make my level invisible from the rankings, so they made everyoneâs level disappear from the ranking. Thatâs some clever play, I must say, but itâll only increase confusion amongst the players who wouldnât know how much they need to level up to rise in ranking. Iâm sure they must be getting a lot of complaints about this change, but on the other hand, these complaints are better than the complaints of cheating,â Ryder thought.
" Iâm still confused as to why they just donât ban me. Even though I did nothing wrong in the game, they can still do it instead of taking such a long way to calm things down," he muttered in an inaudible tone.
"So, whatâs your level?" Shu asked Ryder.
"Iâm level 110," Ryder told Shu casually. He didnât feel the need to hide his level from Shu. Shu had proven to be quite trustworthy. Even though he couldnât be entirely honest with him for some reasons, he could still tell him at least his level.
Shu heard Ryderâs words and just looked at him blankly.
" That was funny. Now tell me your real level," Shu shook his head as he asked again.
" Iâm not lying. Iâm really level 110. I found a unique quest related to my class, which gave me a bunch of experience points in completion. Even Iâm surprised at the experience I got," Ryder said, shaking his head.
"Hah, brother. Tell me where you found her. Be honest," Shu suddenly asked Ryder.
"Found who? Who are you talking about?" Ryder asked in confusion.
"Her! The goddess of luck thatâs getting you such overpowered quests. Bro, youâre a god, arenât you? The game hasnât been released for a long time, yet youâre already a level 110 player," Shu replied with an incredulous look on his face.
"Ah, thatâs what youâre talking about. I guess I was indeed a little lucky with this quest," Ryder answered as he smiled wryly.
"Man, youâre really lucky that the developers hid the levels of people. Otherwise, youâll be getting so many haters. I know you and know that you have no relation to Divinity Developers, and you canât cheat, but others were already calling you an illegal child of Divinity Bosses. If they knew you rose so much since the levels became invisible, theyâd have rioted," Shu told Ryder as he sighed.
"Yeah, that was lucky as well," Ryder replied.
"Man, I donât even know if I would be able to do anything in our question together. Youâll kill all the enemies in one hit. Youâre like the One-hit Man of the tv show," Shu said as he laughed lightly.
"As I said, itâll be a fun adventure. Donât worry about me. Iâll control my strength, and Iâll make sure that nothing goes wrong," Ryder replied.
"Hah, Itâs good too. When we start our guild, and you become our guild leader, we would have no trouble from other guilds at all," Shu said.
Alice heard about the guild and got even more interested.
âIf I ten him that I started playing as well, he might get angry. If I join the guild, I can get close to him in the game. It would be so fun,â She thought.
"Ah, Brother Shu. you guys are starting a guild?" She asked Shu.
" Yeah, soon there would be a guild belonging to us," Shu said as he glanced at Ryder. "A guild in a fully immersive world."
" Thatâs great. What would you name that guild?" She asked again.
If she had a name, she could easily distinguish if at that time there were two or more guilds.
" Ah, right. Brother Ryder. What name are we going to give it? What do you want your guild to be named?" Shu asked Ryder.
"You found the guild establishment token, so itâs your guild that Iâll be managing as the Guild Master. You should come up with a name," Ryder threw the ball back in Shuâs court.
"Nope. Iâm not choosing one. Youâre going to be the one registering the name as itâs guild leader, so you choose it. Iâm bad at naming things anyway. I donât think I have named any single thing correctly except my username that I use in every game," Shu told Ryder.
"BigDaddy?" Ryder muttered as he smiled wryly.
"Fine. Iâll choose a name," Ryder said as he agreed.
" Yeah, think of a nice name," Alice also chimed in excitedly.
"The Guild will be named..." Ryder muttered as he fell into a deep thought.
As he was thinking, a voice echoed in his mind. It felt like some strange voice from his past echoing in his head.
"You can never get salvation. Youâll have Eternal Damnation in hell..." the Voice said.
It felt as if a weird Deja Wu as Ryder heard the voice. He looked back, wondering if someone said this near him.
There was no one around him.
"Did something happen?" Shu asked Ryder.
"Ah, nothing. I just felt like someone said something. Anyway, the name of our guild will be... Eternal Salvation," He finally said after thinking for a while.